President Bill Clinton's worldview saw the United States as operating in a complex, interconnected world, in which conflict was more likely to result from countries' internal conditions (such as poverty, civil strife, and autocracy) than from traditional power rivalries between states. Among other things, this led Clinton to favor a multilateral approach to diplomacy, to often view the motives and actions of other countries in nuanced shades of gray and to delve deeply into the intricacies of policy (Harnisch, 2001; Jewett & Turetzky, 1998).